I absolutely love rains! There’s just something so peaceful and serene in watching the raindrops fall all around you. And they just change the way everything looks so much. The leaves, the trees, the amazingly colored flowers, even the boring grey streets get a life. And on one such beautiful, rainy day, me and my friends decided to go visit the fort Lohagad. It was still dark when we took the 5.45 train to Malawli from Pune where I live. Lohagad is about 9 kms from the train station at Malawli.

As we started walking towards the fort, we were a little disappointed that there were gonna be no rains. The sky seemed clear. And then we saw this:

We were excited at the prospect of rains. We could already smell it in the air. The beginning of rains. The road was a nice, winding, upward slope adorned on both sides with luscious green fields, rice plantations and beautiful colorful flowers.

And this is what we caught on our way:

And then we saw the neighboring fort: Visapur.

Fort Visapur

The lovely, lonely tree. There’s just something eerie and beautiful about this one.

Now coming to the actual fort. This is the entrance:

A view from the top:

And another one:

This is as much as I could click the pictures. Beyond this point, it started raining so hard that it was impossible for me to take any pictures. It was so foggy that we couldn’t see beyond two feet in front of us. It was as if we were walking in the clouds.

The pouring rain, the 270 degree view of the surrounding and us, just sitting there not talking, not saying anything except enjoying the moment. We all knew right then what heaven must feel like!

Thank you Carolyn! Oh it was damn cold. No amount of jackets or wind-cheaters could prevent us from getting drenched. And there was this really strong wind blowing. But it was super fun! And it was all so wonderful we didn’t really care we were cold 😀

As I sit here writing this comment, it is pouring rain and I’m loving it. We lived in San Antonio, Texas for nearly 29 years, and it rarely rained, so living in Virginia has been great. I’ve missed the rain. Your pictures were beautiful, but I know the photos cannot truly describe the lushness of the scenery.

I know! And there was no way I could have captured the actual beauty of it all.
I read this book called Wish You Well by David Baldacci some months ago. It describes the Virginia mountains in the 1940s. It all seemed so beautiful. I’m sure you have amazing scenery all around you as well.

India is a whole bunch of beautiful places. 😛 One could spend a lifetime and still only scratch the surface. Although that could be said even of such a small island as England/Scotland/Wales..; I am still ignorant of many areas, and even the ones I know better still have secrets to reveal.

So I think it’s best to concentrate on what we are experiencing at the present moment rather than imagining that we will ever truly “know” any place. We will only have our mental picture of it, so let’s make it as vivid as we can. 😀